Continuing our survey of individual Tudor City buildings, here's the lowdown on The Woodstock, known within the French Company as the Seventh Unit.
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320 E. 42nd Street, at sunrise |
➺ Opened May 1, 1929. Faced with red brick, trimmed with limestone
and terra cotta. It once had a spire, removed in the 1940s for reasons unknown.
➺ 459 apartments, arranged over 32 stories. The tallest building in Tudor City (and the tallest apartment building in Manhattan when it first opened). Most units are studios, with some one- and two-bedroom apartments on the upper floors.
➺ Opened as an Apartment
Hotel (efficiency apartments offering hotel amenities like room service from
the on-premises restaurant, plus maid and laundry services, for an additional
fee). The original onsite restaurant was converted to a club room around 1942.
➺ In 1951-52, the entrance to The Woodstock was lowered 17 feet as part of the regrading of 42nd St., and the first basement became the ground floor.
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Newspaper ad, March 10, 1929. The "apartments of the future" feature 31 feet-long living rooms with five windows. |
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Floor plan, 1930 |
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Entire floor plan, 1930. The apartments of the future are the corner units. |
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A massive terra cotta lion guards a 23rd-floor terrace |
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